Urdu Software

Al Nashir al Sahafi Dibaj

'Ready Set Go' for Urdu, Arabic & Farsi

3 language solution for Mac which consists of the powerful page layout program Ready Set Go plus QuickDraw GX fonts & system extensions. Handles Urdu, Arabic, Farsi & English. Fully scaleable fonts including high quality Nastaliq, controllable in small increments; multiple columns; text wrap around objects; pictures; style sheets.

Al Nashir al Sahafi Dibaj is the next generation Urdu desktop publishing software. It's new features include enhanced typography, colour transparencies, improved graphics and internet publishing.

This version supports all the features and productivity expected by today's publishing professionals.

It uses advanced graphics technology to give a level of quality that matches the ability of the printer. Now includes support for internet publishing.

InPage Personal

High quality Urdu software which works with Windows 3·1, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. [Now only available as single-user version – network & licence users should use Educational version.]

Features include:

• Superb quality Nastaliq TrueType font.
• 15 additional Naskh, Arabic and decorative fonts.
• Font sizes up to 1024pt and page sizes up to A2.
• Full mixing of Urdu, Arabic, Farsi, Sindhi and English in the same document.
• Shading & colouring of text and background.
• Islamic calligraphic clip art such as Bismillah etc.
• Import of pictures in most common formats.
• Export Urdu text as graphics files.
• Automatic page numbering.
• All the usual word processing and page layout features such as centring, columns, borders, test wrap around pictures, styles, page break control, import & export of text, cut & paste, find & replace in Urdu & English, tables in any supported language

InPage Educational version (Personal + spelling checker)

InPage Professional

In our opinion this is currently the best Urdu software on the market. It has all the capability of InPage Personal plus many extra features for producing well designed documents and publications.

Extra features include:

• Total of 36 fonts including Nastaliq in both Karachi and Lahori styles.
• Rotation of text and pictures to any angle.
• Urdu spelling checkers and word count.
• Linking and unlinking of text frames.
• Support for Kashmiri, Pashto and Hazargi Languages.
• Support for CMYK colours.
• More border/line patterns.
• Multiple user-defined keyboards.
• Indexing and table of contents for English and Urdu text.
• Outline Text.
• Automatic kerning in Nastaliq text to give an improved calligraphy style to the text.
• Automatic kashida insertion for Arabic fonts.
• Sorting of Urdu and English text.

InPage Professional 2.8 Single user	£395
Network 5 to 9 users	£210 each
10 to 19 users	£185 each
20 to 49 users	£150 each
50 - 99 users	£120 each
unlimited network	£10 500
Non-network licence 5 to 9 users	£295 each
10 to 19 users	£265 each
20 to 49 users	£210 each
50 to 99 users	£170 each
100 +

Islamic Clip Art

Range of Islamic images including many beautiful calligraphic texts (Bismillah, proverbs, prayers etc), geometric patterns, Ramadan images, mosques, Mecca, Madina, Quranic Ayat etc.

650 black & white and 1350 images supplied on CD.



 

Nastaleeq Nizami

Urdu & Farsi for Apple Mac. Nastaleeq Nizami is the first Mac system which successfully automates the production of Nastaliq text. English and Arabic can be combined with Urdu and Farsi to produce multilingual text. Files can be exported into Aldus PageMaker.

Nastaleeq Nizami

£595

Page Composer 3

Good quality Nastaliq fonts plus 19 Arabic and other fonts to allow mixing of Urdu, Arabic, Farsi and English.

Whilst not as sophisticated or powerful as InPage Page Composer is worth considering for use in schools where a reasonably priced Urdu or Arabic network package is required.

• Works in English Windows 95/98 & NT
• Supports OLE 2·0
• Phonetic keyboard layout

Urdu Mahir XP

New Urdu software for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
Now you can use the features of Office XP in Urdu with a Nastaliq font in the Office font menu.
Work in Urdu, Arabic, Sindhi & English in Word XP, Excel XP, PowerPoint XP, Access XP and Publisher XP.
Requires: USB socket, Win 2000 or Win XP + Office XP.

Urdu 98

With Urdu 98 you can create Urdu documents in Word 97, Access 97, PowerPoint 97 and FrontPage 98.
Requires: Pentium PC, Win 95, Win 98 or Win ME, USB socket.